Pope Francis said, “My greatest desire is to pause” in front of the tilma, the cloak bearing the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Pope Francis said, “My greatest desire is to pause” in front of the tilma, the cloak bearing the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

The Catholic Church is providing a welcome and a place of refuge for them at a time when many in the wider society want them to go home.

“Music is a very powerful tool of personal and social development,” said Borowsky. “Like religion, good art can inspire people.”

Springfield Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski issued an invitation and a challenge in his new pastoral letter, “The Wideness of God’s Mercy.”
Pre-theologate students at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, gather for evening prayer in this 2009 file photo. (CNS file photo)When I was a student at Franciscan University, I remember hanging out with my brother’s roommate, Father Michael Gaitley (best-selling author and national speaker), playing intramural volleyball with Jason Evert (author

Come the evening of Feb. 13, Mount St. Joseph would dearly love to have order restored to the high school wrestling world.

Unless a man and woman are willing to give up their individuality for one another in marriage, Father Rooker said, they have no right to marry
God doesn’t measure us by our failure. God measures us by our efforts to pick ourselves up and do better. God is the God of second chances, the God of new resolutions, the God for whom each day is a new day, a first day for the rest of our lives

The film contains a complex treatment of religious themes, including some irreverent humor, comic references to homosexuality, as well as a couple of uses of profanity and of crass language.
I. Introduction: Season of Mercy A. Years ago I was assigned with a priest who, like myself, loves coffee. Actually, it was more than loving coffee – that first cup and its successors seemed pretty essential to his well-being (and mine). One Lent he decided to give up coffee. It was rough going. He was […]

“When you’re a disciple in the presence of the Eucharist, something happens to you,” Cardinal DiNardo said. “You’re transformed.”

“Think of Lent as spring training for our spiritual lives,” Archbishop Lori said.
